Kinsey v. Duteau

On April 15, 1901, Swallwell & Swartout, a corporation, was the owner in fee of a tract of land situate in Snohomish county. On that day, it éntered into a written contract to sell the same *331to the appellant Joseph Duteau, .on deferred payments, the last payment maturing on October 15, 1904. In the latter part of the year 1902, Duteau, then having paid substantially one-half of the purchase price of the land and then intending to leave Snohomish county for South Africa, assigned all of his property, real and personal, to his brother-in-law, the respondent H. M. Kinsey, to be cared for during…